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When the concordat, the CPP process and the new national performance framework emerged three years ago, it all happened at such a cracking pace that it caught a lot of people unawares.
The amount of publicity that we are getting in the local press is astonishing. There is a whole new marketplace. As Betsy Reed said, more local authorities will be involved in two or three years' time.
It is too early to say whether the Parliament will have to adopt the sledgehammer approach of passing new primary legislation to take another approach.
Order 1999, which was laid before the Parliament on 26 May, be approved. S1M-29 Mr Henry McLeish: That the draft Scotland Act 1998 (Border Rivers) Order 1999, which was laid before the Parliament on 26 May, be approved.